"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us"

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

#Past Quotes #Garden Quotes #Political Quotes

“I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”
“Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.228
“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”
“You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
“I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.”
“Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.”
“There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1994). “Multiculturalism”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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